He pretends to be repentant to kill the prosecutor during the interrogation. The plan, which later failed, was apparently conceived by 42-year-old Pancrazio Carrino.
He was one of the suspects involved in the operation called 'The Wolf' which led the Salento judiciary, in July 2023, to dismantle the Lamendola-Cantanna clan. The target was precisely the prosecutor in charge of the investigation, Carmen Ruggiero, who obtained the precautionary custody order for 22 people.